Current Research:

Book Manuscript in Progress

Acculturation and Gender: Changes in Manchu Power in Late Imperial China. I discuss the interactions of gender and ethnicity in the process of Chinese-Manchu acculturation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This project is funded by an Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant.

"The Nature of the Uprising of Liu Liu, Liu Qi, and Yang Hou in the Ming Dynasty," Journal of Tsinghua University, 1986:1, no. 2, 98-104.

"Huanguan and Taijian," Historical Research, 1983:6, 188-89.

Conference Paper Presentations:

“Ambiguous Identities: A Study of Banner Women through the Dream of the Red Chamber,” Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, June 7-9, 2013

“Qing Palace Women and Manchu Ethnicity,” Symposium on the Imperial Court of China, Japan, and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor’s Household (1600-early 1900s), University of San Francisco, Center for the Pacific Rim, April 18-19, 2013

“Chastity and Sinicization: Sexuality of Manchu women in the Qing Empire”, 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, June 9-12, 2011.